The math concept hidden in this tree art — geometric shapes known as fractals — is apparent in branching patterns in nature and may be key to humans’ ability to recognize such artwork as ...

What I find fascinating about the interrelation between cognitive fluctuations, mind wandering, and fractal patterns in art and nature is that they tend to be good for us in a uniquely playful way.

Both forms appear in art across many cultures. When viewing the fractal patterns, Robles said, subjects chose favorites between different pairs of images that differed in complexity.

Columbus artist Jonah Jacobs leads a nature walk that ends in artwork. Its undeniable that nature holds beauty. Within this beauty can be found the seemingly complex, never-ending patterns called ...

Trees are loosely fractal, branching forms that repeat the same patterns at smaller and smaller scales from trunk to branch tip. Jingyi Gao and Mitchell Newberry examine scaling of branch ...

The exhibit uses fractals -- mathematical equations represented as infinitely repeating shapes and patterns. Horsthuis runs the equations through the software Mandelbulb 3D, which then manifests ...